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The Center's searchable Resource Library features articles, reports, webinars, podcasts, toolkits, and other materials developed by trusted industry leaders to guide and support rural health stakeholders.
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The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation characterizes a Culture of Health as one in which getting healthy and staying healthy is a fundamental and guiding social value.
Flex Program Fundamentals: An Introduction to the Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility Program is designed to be used by both new and current Flex Program staff: as an orientation manual and as a guide to helpful resources.
The purpose of this guide is to provide information about Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and clarity around best practices of care management for those with COPD in rural communities.
This guide provides information about the current status and history of the MBQIP. It is intended to help state Flex Program personnel, and relevant subcontractors understand the basics of MBQIP, including key resources available to support them in their work.
This guide, updated Nov 2023, provides information on HCAHPS, including the benefits and challenges to implementing an HCAHPS survey process with small rural hospitals, specifically CAHs. It also identifies vendors to guide small rural hospitals and CAH vendor selection of this important, patient-centered survey process.
This Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility (Flex) Performance Management and Evaluation Guide aims to support Flex Program Coordinators towards incorporating performance management into program operations, leading towards program improvement and evaluation.
The National Rural Health Resource Center (The Center) partnered with The Northwest Regional Telehealth Resource Center (NRTRC) to create a CAH Telehealth Guide. The guide provides practical guidance on implementing and sustaining telehealth to optimize health care delivery, expand access, and enhance care coordination.
Access Flex Program funding guidance, templates, webinar recordings, and other associated materials for the current funding cycle.